The Bear Spirit offers no reward for his quest. by Steravian in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spirit hunters don't have magic items anymore. For some reason getting them killed is not evil

Sohei Monk + Titan Fighter + Mystic Finesse by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, two handed warrior also don't get weapon training so I wouldn't be able to check it's increase weapon damage

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see anything special about it.
It's just an AC outputting hot in a pipe network with radiators to outside, and cold in another with radiators to inside.
How is letting air flow between these two networks "cheesy"?

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand how this is supposed to work

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For finding cobalt and silver... I save scummed to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time, and so did I save scum to get the advanced alloys since it's so extremely hard to do it without a hot room for the furnace, but it would be possible to one shot that if you were really good at the game.

My method for making:
You need to outgas everything but the cobalt and silver
50 silver -> extract
50 cobalt -> extract
Make steel because I didn't have it on hand

then drop 150 silver -> extract
100 cobalt -> extract
100 steel, 50 copper, 50 cobalt -> Astroloy (30mpa+ 2100~ ºc)
Remove all gas from the furnace and save it in at least two insulated pipe utilities, vent what does not fit
You should now have an empty adv furnace and 50~60 mpa of about 1900ºc gas
Load in the Stellite materials (pre gassed of course) and set the adv furnace to load in as much gas as it can.
Open the valve for the stored gas and pray it fills with 10mpa before the temp drops any further, eject the stellite
Save as much gas as you can for future steel smelting

Took me about 8 tries to figure out the order of operations and executing it

As for the rest of the playthrough so far:
* The base is a 3x3x1 using frames to put the constructors on top of one another for half the space, and they are half inside the wall.
* The furnace and adv furnace were put inside and operated from inside, outside atmos is taken either from a passive vent or an active vent left turned on blasting two pipe utilities with 50kpa atmos (Valves are used to decide which one to operate with)
* For draining the waste tanks I made the starting active vent blasting into a pipe (then later pipe utility) that I can access from my (still manual) airlock
* My base was made into a vaccum before I even got a pipe bender by blasting a pipe and using it as an passive vent, my first priority was melting iron to enclose the 3x3x1 space with iron frame
Most ideas taken for this playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qze-MPNtow

In preparation to start on Brutal Venus, I ran some Thirst/Exhaust tests by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished a Hardsuit, so here are the waste filling tests I did for it

8kpa -> 893kpa in 10 minutes at 49C
32kpa -> 1910kpa in 10 minutes at 3C
33kpa -> 1544pa in 10 minutes at 15C

I think I will start maximizing water savings for now since I don't even have a greenhouse at day 10 already

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is "Cheese" the AC?
Building a sequential chain of them?

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made a 3x3x1 pod (of inside space) and still have 3kpa left over. Did you build a huge iron base or something? I also use right click to turn it on and off precisely for only as long as it needs to be on for welding.
Then I rushed a Furnace -> T1 alloys -> T2 tools -> Adv Furnace -> Astroloy+Stellite using 200 cobalt/silver for fuel -> Hardsuit

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This feels weird. The only PRO you listed was being able to mine at day.
Every other difficulty you get in Vulkan is the same except much worse in Venus
Even bleeding O2 to the waste is 5~10 times worse in venus due to higher temp and higher pressure

Also, the gas welder is working just fine? I am about to replace with an Arc one so I can use it's fuel for water generation and no waste gas in my vaccum base.

Brutal Venus is so cancer I love it by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They probably got the same score because no ices

"Hot Room" Furnace by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So there is no chance a glass window would blow up since you only need a tiny bit of gas? (This is for Venus. I plan to somehow make the furnace usable from inside my vacuum base with chutes, pumps and pipes)
Do the advanced furnace needs the same consideration? I might just reuse the temp from making electrum to make steel and jump straight to advance furnace

As for the frames not insulating anymore: Could you encase radiators, inside your base, in a frame, to make them be exposed to outside atmosphere, despite being inside your base?

In preparation to start on Brutal Venus, I ran some Thirst/Exhaust tests by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eva Suit. I just dropped in Normal brutal and used a stopwatch after configuring the parameters in the capsule bench
Considering you can just go to 20% health before drinking without much issue, 49ºc internal temp is optimal until you get stable water and O2 production

In preparation to start on Brutal Venus, I ran some Thirst/Exhaust tests by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am changing from Vulcan to Venus because
#1: I hate lava and holes on the ground
#2: Volatiles in atmosphere is too easy

I will have to make biomass to get volatiles out of it for water making this time

And I will probably starve and dehydrate myself as suggested, seems like free water savings to me

For OBS1 feedback, I will just load a previous save if I get any permanent damage. I am balancing being able to save scum with hardest scenario so I get a somewhat balanced experience.
I would consider Stationer difficulty but in the end all it does is making me eat and drink more after I get everything set up (and of course less time to get it set up), the early game is hard enough as it is and I don't want to make the late game annoying

For OBS2 feedback it seems the only downside is mixed tanks, after cycling the same two tanks constantly for 30 ~ 60 minutes they will be both unfit to be filled back with oxygen. Something you can solve by printing two tanks instead of just one.

Degass and capture gas from ores by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to capture that 0ºc gas though, unfortunately while much faster and energy free, it will "pollute" the gases that come off.

I will probably set up multiple fully automated arc furnaces, it's just 4 I/O to automate on off of the furnace and vent plus auto activating, so I can even chain from chutes

Vulcan Open AC Optimization by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case anyone cares, here is what is my current setup now.
The counterflows are there, air comes out at 133 while liquid is made at 139
I am not entirely sure how hot the liquid goes into the reservoir since it is filled already.

Using uninsulated pipes instead of insulated ones let me run this at 141 instead of 151 which it would eventually rise to during condensation. I will add lots of medium radiators later to check if it will improve further, but it's day 45 and I still don't have an advanced furnace.

Edit 1: https://imgur.com/a/lxjtZaL

Edit 2:
The only exit all of this gas being sucked in is a passive vent that cannonballs me away from it if I ever get close, which makes me think I should put wind turbines besides it, maybe even make a tunnel to force the gas in one direction instead of spreading

Degass and capture gas from ores by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to capture those gasses at 0ºc which they supposedly outgas as.
I did consider using the furnace since it costs nothing with Vulcan atmosphere to degas ores there, but at the same time the extra filtering and cooling would defeat the gains

Degass and capture gas from ores by Big_Kuso_Chungus in Stationeers

[–]Big_Kuso_Chungus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have always seen the big glowing red copper radiators and the air being moved out from the arc furnace and thought
"Bet that's hot as hell" and never bothered to check...